kĩeha
See also: kiehâ
Kikuyu edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun edit
kĩeha class 7 (plural cieha)
- grief, sorrow, sadness, anxiety[3]
- Englerina woodfordioides[1] (syn. Loranthus woodfordioides[4]); parasitic plant found on trees, like mistletoe[4]
Derived terms edit
- kĩeha kĩa mũrangi - Engleromyces goetzei[5] (Xylariaceae) (lit. kĩeha of a bamboo)
(Proverbs)
See also edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Njoroge, Grace N. and Rainer W. Bussmann (2006). "Traditional management of ear, nose and throat (ENT) diseases in Central Kenya." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:54.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
- ^ “kĩeha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 86. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1325. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
- ^ Kamau, Loice Njeri et al. (2016). "Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya", p. 8. TANG 6(3).
Further reading edit
(Englerina woodfordioides):
- Image at PhytoImages.siu.edu (inflorescence)
- Image at PhytoImages.siu.edu (fruit)